All posts tagged Sharon Reiss Baker

Books for Kids About Teachers Who Change Lives

As we ease into the summer and reflect on the our children’s past school year, it is the teacher who makes the difference between a great year and a mediocre or worse year. I am sure that I am not alone in sending up prayers to get particular teachers for my kids next year. This list is an homage to the exceptional teachers everywhere who dedicate their lives to making a difference. And they absolutely do! One day, one of their students may even write about their exception teacher as in the case of a few of the books selected below. Read more…

Best Books for Arty Kids

My oldest is a budding artist amd while I have failed to support this interest with extra curricular activities to improve her skills, I have finally seen the light and enrolled her in a week of real art camp. Not the arts and crafts variety. She draws daily such that I tend to push activities that are opposite to art to round her out: math, reading, music, languages, and sports. Read more…